Improvement in baggage-checks



Patented March 2O 2l/Organon.

ATTURMEYS.

R. F. LIVERMORE.

4IBAGGAGE CHECK.

WITNESSES:

l N. PETERS. PHDTDLIJTNOGMER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED .STATES PATENT FFICE'.

RAY E. LIvEEMoEE, oF PORT HENRY, NEw YoEk.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAGGAGE-CHECKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,522., dated March 20, 1877; application filed December 30, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAY F. LIVEEMORE, of Port Henry, in the county of Essex and State of New York, have invented a newr and Improved Baggage-Gheck, of' which the following is a specication:

In the accompanying drawing, Figures l and 2 represent, respectively, front and rear views of. my improved railroad baggage-check 5 and Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section on line c c, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. f v

The invention relates to an improved baggage-check, by which the system of checking baggage from and to local 'and main stations over dii'erent roads is facilitated, the trouble of exchanging checks avoided, and the number of checks required for a station or road, and consequently the expense of the same, reduced, as one ofthe improved checks takes the place of a number ofthe common checks in use.

The invention consists of a baggage-check yconsisting of two pivoted metal plates, that are connected by a lip of one plate binding on the other plate, and by the leather strap attached to a loop ot' one plate and passed through slots near the connecting-lip ofboth plates. Notched station-indicating disks are set, by a center and circumferential pin, between the metal covering-plates to the required points, which are read off by corresponding recesses of the metal plates.

In the drawing, A and B are metallic plates of the shape and size of usual baggage-checks, which are connected at one point ofthe circumference by a pivot-pin, f, on which the plates 'turn for bein greadily opened,and are held closed at a point nearly diametrically opposite to the pivot by a binding-lip, a. One-ol' the plates is flat and the other curved up near the connecting pivot, so as to form a space of suitable width between the same, for introducing lthe stationindicating disks C, the outer plates forming thereby an inclosing casing for the same. rEhe common check-strap g is attached to a loop, b, of one of the outer plates, and then passed through slots a/ of both plates A and B, near the binding-lip a ot' the same, to be attached to the trunk in the usual manner. The lip and strap lock the outer plates A B rigidly together, so as to prevent any sliding apart or disarrangingof the same while in use.

The station-indicating disks (l are placed, by

a center perforation, on a center-pin, E, projectin g from that plate, by which the space for the disks is provided. A second pin or post, d, projects from the same plate at the circumference of the disks C, which are arranged Both plates A and B are provided with corresponding recesses or openings h, of suitable size and shape, through which portions of the disksare Visible. One of the plates is marked along the recess h with the word From, the other with the word To,7 so that when the disks are adjusted to indicate the starting station at one disk and theI point of destination at the other disk, the place from which the baggage is shipped and the place for which it is destined is instantly recognized. The disks may be set to any station along the vline or connecting line, and other disks for through lines be inserted, as required. The name of the company and the check number are stamped on the check and the usual duplicates attached to the strap. y

For using the check, the plates are first unlocked by pulling the strap from the slots and turning the plates apart, which leaves the disks free to be handled, as required. The name of the station from which the baggage is going is placed in the opening of the plate witlrthe naines of stations and initials of connectingfli-neys on long routes and different Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A baggagencheck provided withtwo endr pivoted face-plates` inclosing indicator-,disks l C that turn on a common center, E,`as shown and described.

2. The plates A B locked together by li'p a and strap g, the latter passing through loop `b and slots ai a', arranged substantially as set forth.

RAY F. LIVERMORE.

Witnesses:

A. SALMoN, CHARLES A. HoPrER. 

